Job Description
Aroundhome is a recommendation platform for houseowners.With a comprehensive range of information and services relating to their own home and a team of 300 employees, Aroundhome supports houseowners who live in their own property in carrying out major investment projects relating to their own home - from selling and investing to maintaining and repairing their property.
Our mission: Your property is more than just a house. It is a home and a life project. Every change brings insecurities. Because every decision can be a wrong one - and expensive. We make it possible to make better decisions with good recommendations and to realize all large projects around the own home more stress-free. With orientation, individual advice and the mediation of suitable partners for all-round successful projects.
Aroundhome - Because it's their home.
Together with you, we want Aroundhome to develop into the one recommendation platform for houseowners and are looking forward to welcoming you to our team.
Staff Engineer Backend (m/f/d)
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join one of our cross-functional engineering teams. Our mission: expand our core business into a platform that enables customers to successfully complete their home renovation projects and return to us for future needs. Our next big challenge is to improve our customer account area and Customer Data Platform to deliver more relevant email marketing.
Hybrid Option (Berlin, Deutschland, Portugal)
What you can expect in this role
- Technical Leadership: As Staff Engineer you'll drive technical discussions and decision-making within your team and across adjacent teams, focusing on iterative customer impact and technical quality
- Domain Knowledge: You contribute strategically to the development of technical solutions that address complex business challenges, identifying areas of uncertainty while driving projects forward with simple and maintainable code
- Collaboration: Collaboration is central to your role - you regularly exchange with other teams Engineers on the overarching architecture of our tech stack
- Product Focus: You are a trusted point of contact for our product manager, providing both feedback and technical input on the user stories therefore help us build an outstanding product
- Mentorship: You see yourself as a mentor who uncovers the strengths of other developers and you empower them through regular feedback and career growth plans
- Growth: You are committed to staying up-to-date with current tech trends, while actively exploring and implementing relevant new technologies. You constantly improve quality by following established engineering best practices and ensuring high observability of services
- You are a very experienced staff-level engineer, with strong expertise in Ruby and an interest in Golang, eager to tackle backend challenges while also guiding our overall technical architecture
- You focus on sustainable solutions that remain easy to understand as well as scalable in the long term and strive for continuous improvement
- You are enthusiastic, think pragmatically, and maintain a positive and solution-oriented attitude when taking on challenges
- You strive to grow, whether this is about the code, the team, or yourself, and therefore communicate and collaborate proactively
- You thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring, and are eager to share your knowledge with others. You value open feedback and actively contribute to our culture of learning and growth. Bonus points if you're excited about contributing to our bi-weekly tech talks! ;)
- Hybrid Work // Stay flexible: Decide freely, whether you want to work from our office in Berlin, from home throughout Germany, or fully remote from Portugal. Additionally, we offer you the possibility to work up to 30 days per year from selected EU countries
- Room to grow // Stay curious: In regular/annual feedback meetings, you design your own personal development path together with your team lead. In addition, we offer bi-weekly Tech Talks, an annual training budget, free access to LinkedIn Learning as well as great workshops to seek new input and specific training for your personal development
- Mental & physical health // Stay healthy & active: We care about your well-being and support your health with a discounted membership at Urban Sports Club. In addition, our cooperation partner Fürstenberg Institute is available to you and your family members with advice and support when it comes to mental health & coaching
- Taking responsibility // We #care: We care for our planet and the people who are living on it. To make our world a little bit better, our ESG Team (Environmental, Social & Governance) promotes our awareness for environmentally friendly behavior. In addition, we work with JobRad, offer a discounted BVG ticket, and actively support social projects in Berlin at our annual Social Day to give something back
- Teamspirit // Stay connected: What drives us is our sense of community. That's why we celebrate our Company Day once a month in our office at Potsdamer Platz, where everyone gets together in person. In addition to a comprehensive update of our C-Board, the main focus is on togetherness and the exchange of ideas over lunch and dinner together
- Transparency // We want to be transparent - also when it comes to salary: If you have any questions about a possible salary range for this position, feel free to send us an email at [email protected]. We will get back to you as soon as possible